Ren&eacute A. Guzman: ‘Fantasy Art Now’ will take you out of this world

So my editor drops “Fantasy Art Now” on me and I’m thinking, “Oh hey, D&D kind of stuff.” Then I thumb through it and realize I’ve just opened up a museum of stunning imagery.

Without pretensions or promises it can’t keep, “Fantasy Art” offers a wealth of contemporary fantasy work that would make any aspiring Frank Frazetta out there weep tears of joy and then go paint an armored knight on a gnarled cliff raising his mighty sword to the stormy heavens while a scantily-clad buxom lass perches at the warrior’s side and snakes her arms around his thigh. Or as I like to call it, Tuesday.

Seriously, this book has the goods judging by the copy on my desk. You get a foreword by that other luminary artist Boris Vallejo and chapters of gorgeous art devoted to barbarians, fairies, monsters and more. And for just $29.95 in hardcover you can’t go wrong.